US blocked Lebanon truce
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Bolton admits Lebanon truce block
Last Updated: Thursday, 22 March 2007, 13:10 GMT
A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
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Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah's military capability.
Mr Bolton said an early ceasefire would have been "dangerous and misguided".
He said the US decided to join efforts to end the conflict only when it was clear Israel's campaign wasn't working.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479377.stm
Last Updated: Thursday, 22 March 2007, 13:10 GMT
A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006.
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Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah's military capability.
Mr Bolton said an early ceasefire would have been "dangerous and misguided".
He said the US decided to join efforts to end the conflict only when it was clear Israel's campaign wasn't working.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6479377.stm
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I was reading today how Shimon Peres was saying that the invasion of Lebennon was a huge mistake.
yeah, i can't think of anything more 'dangerous and misguided' than peace :rolleyes:
they still dropped a looooot of cluster bombs on southern lebanon AFTER the ceasefire
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
for some of us this is not news. :(
take a good look
this could be the day
hold my hand
lie beside me
i just need to say
and now they sit around towns and homes waiting to blow.
http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=87122&d=25&m=10&y=2006
Since then, the true dimensions of the problem have become clearer: 770 cluster-bomb sites have been identified. The current UN estimate is that Israel dropped between 2 million and 3 million bomblets on Lebanon, of which up to 1 million have yet to explode.
It is estimated that there are more unexploded bomblets in southern Lebanon than there are people. They lurk in tobacco fields, olive groves, on rooftops, in farms, mixed in with rubble. They are injuring two or three people every day, according to the United Nations, and have killed 20 people since the cease-fire in August.
“What we did was insane and monstrous,” one Israeli commander said to the newspaper Haaretz. “We covered entire towns in cluster bombs.”
As Egeland noted, the majority of these bombs were dropped in the last three days of the war — a time when the UN resolution to end the fighting had been agreed on, when the war was virtually over, when it was clear that Israel had failed to accomplish its declared objectives in launching the campaign.
Because they were dropped so late in the war, it’s hard to imagine what specific military objective these bombs could possibly have been meant to accomplish. Instead, they seem to have been dropped as a final, gratuitous act of violence in a war waged against an entire population. The vast majority of the 1,200 Lebanese killed by Israeli bombardments were civilians; 1 in 3 was a child.
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It really is disgusting.
or, were the soldiers captured inside of lebanon?
http://www.antiwar.com/frank/?articleid=9401
I think what these smart people realise is that NONE of the smart stories you lap up as smart are ever the full story or even the true story. o yea (???)
Yeah, because now that they have a ceasefire Hezbollah is seeing the light and disarming. Trading short-term peace for a massive war down the road. Love it!
ahhh, so that's why they dropped all those cluster bombs after the ceasefire and fought a war that seemed to target mainly the civilians of lebanon...ya know, there's a name some ppl call acts like that....i thought we were fighting a war on it
saw a shirt the other day that said
"terrorism: what the bigger army calls the smaller army."
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way